There has been a lot of activity here lately, and for me at least, the rapid influx of activity has pretty much died in as I have marked off my lists of requirements for OM. I have it now on 3 devices. I miss apt, but I am getting along with dnf just fine.
I wanted to share my positive experiences here, as I feel there have been enough constructive criticisms that have been shared. I have none to add.
The installer is fantastic to me, because it made setting up hibernation out of the box super easier. I am so used to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get my swap file resized, and the offsets properly in the fstab and initfram. On Ubuntu 24.04, it would work fine for about 4 suspends or hibernations, and then the system would corrupt and you would loss your session. None of that nonsense with OM. Why? Because there was never anything wrong with a swap partition to beign with, and so they just use it. Thank you.
Plasma 5 is new to me. But I am getting along with it now just great. The biggest thing to me was reorganizing my virtual desktops and having the taskbar autohide. Tiling like snapping of windows works well and keyboard shortcuts are useful. I like that Windows shortcuts are used out of the box.
I struggled to get Steam (not paying attention as it is available in Discovery), Crossover, and a few flatpaks. Steam works well when just installing it via Discovery as mentioned. Crossover requires a file that listed with the name expected. Mainly searching (learned how to do that with dnf) and installing it got it working. Office 2007 is running without issue. For the flatpaks, the kdewallat just does not seem to handle things as well as the gnome-keyring does. One downside to using This is still a work in progress, but it isn’t holding thing back.
A lot of the development work I do for work is for Windows. I have yet to try to fire up Windows through Virtualbox as I am used to using VMWare Workstation. Since Oracle took over they made getting to files a pain in the butt, so I just don’t feel like trying to get the rpm.
But my system runs cooler under OM and battery life seems to be better as compared to Windows 11 with my typical workload.
I just am really getting a long well on Rock. I am very pleased with it and look forward to possibly finding the time to contribute some development power to the distro.